Gilbert Shelton (Writer)

Comic Book Confidential

A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.

Release Date1989-06-14

Charactersd Self

Vote Count27

The Freak Brothers

The escapades of a trio of stoner anti-establishment characters and their cat who wake up from a 50-year nap after smoking a magical strain of weed in 1969, and must adjust to life with a new family in present-day San Francisco.

Release Date2021-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Episode Count16

Vote Count17

Brand X

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.

Release Date1970-05-18

DepartmentArt

JobArt Designer

Vote Count2

Set Your Chickens Free!

A chicken farmer takes LSD.

Release Date1974-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Up in Flames

Time is up for The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers! The landlady has had enough of their dodging rent and drunken stoner parties, and she’s giving them one day to get the rent paid or they’re being evicted by sundown. Completely out of money, the Brothers decide to hit the streets and get jobs so they can stay in their awful apartment (it has a toilet in the kitchen)!

Release Date1978-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters